Scientific Thinking
The main consequence of prefrontal lobotomy.
What is apathy?
The numerical value that indicates the strength of the relationship between two measured variables.
What is the correlation coefficient?
Supportive cells of the nervous system.
What are glia?
The nervous system is divided into the central nervous system and the _______________.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
The auditory sensory organ.
What is the cochlea?
The mode of thinking that permits problem-solving and conceptual learning.
What is analytical thinking?
The process which ensures that every person from the studied population has an equal chance to participate.
What is random selection?
The protein to which neurotransmitters bind to exert effects on the post-synaptic neuron.
What is a receptor?
Pockets in the brain that are filled with cerebrospinal fluid.
What are cerebral ventricles?
Principles that govern how we perceive objects as wholes within their context.
What are gestalt principles?
The process of using our emotions to evaluate the validity of a claim.
What is the emotional reasoning fallacy?
Deliberate misrepresentation by a respondent to fake a psychological disturbance.
What is malingering?
The most prevalent excitatory neurotransmitter in the vertebrate nervous system.
What is glutamate?
The cortices responsible for somatosensation and spatial awareness are located in this lobe of the brain.
What is the parietal lobe?
A participant's tendency to say "yes" or "no" when they are uncertain as to whether a stimulus has been presented.
What is a response bias?
A rule of thumb in scientific thinking that argues against complexity.
What is Occam's Razor?
The likelihood that the results of a study will generalize to real world settings.
What is external validity?
The mechanism of plasticity by which unnecessary neurons and axons are removed.
What is pruning?
The part of the brainstem responsible for regulating heartbeat, breathing, nausea, and vomiting.
What is the medulla?
The structures of the tongue holding the taste buds.
What are papillae?
The level of analysis in psychology that studies brain structure and function and how these relate to behavior.
What is the neurological / neurophysiological level?
The median, mean, and mode are all descriptive statistics that indicate this property of a dataset.
What is its central tendency?
A chemical agent that blocks a neurotransmitter from exerting its effects.
What is an antagonist?
The region of the brain responsible for control over hormone production.
What is the hypothalamus?
A type of non-specialized receptor in the skin that provides touch, temperature, and especially pain sensation.
What is a free nerve ending?